Chapter Summaries

Yue Chen and Long Haochen ventured deeper into the Cave of Dreadful Wails, where Yue Chen tried to learn how to withstand the wails while using less spiritual power. Yating could not explain the strange auras in Yue Chen’s body, but the failed shield experiment gave him a flash of insight into the skill.

• Yue Chen decided to study the Holy Light Shield instead of relying only on skill points, then led Long Haochen deeper into the cave with Spiritual Recovery Pills.
• Long Haochen introduced Yating, and Yue Chen asked whether the two unfamiliar auras in his body had fused with him; Yating said she did not know.
• Yue Chen shielded Yating and Long Haochen from another wave of wails and resolved to find a way to obtain an elemental spirit of his own.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen discussed how to make the Holy Light Shield resist the wails while consuming less spiritual power, and Yue Chen tested the method as Long Haochen prepared to take over.
• Yue Chen’s shield cracked and collapsed, and Long Haochen quickly cast another one; the impact briefly hurt Yue Chen’s mental power but gave him a flash of insight.

Yue Chen mastered Light Ripple and used it to shield himself and Long Haochen from the Cave of Dreadful Wails. After discovering the undead-tainted corpses and reaching a deep fissure, Yue Chen carried Long Haochen down into its darkness to investigate the source of the wails.

• Yue Chen named and unlocked Light Ripple, then immediately maxed its proficiency and felt his control over spiritual power improve.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen found Greater Demon corpses in the cave and identified the undead aura contaminating them.
• Yue Chen demonstrated his improved Holy Light Shield, leaving Long Haochen awestruck and doubting his own talent.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen reached a vast fissure where the wails stopped, and Yue Chen prepared to descend with him.
• Yue Chen revealed his ability to fly with spiritual-power wings, then carried Long Haochen down the fissure while protecting them from the undead aura.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen reached the source of the wails in the Cave of Dreadful Wails and discovered an enormous ancient tower. Wraiths attacked them before they could investigate, leaving Yue Chen to defend them with Light Ripple as the creatures swooped closer.

• Yue Chen used Light Ripple to make his Holy Light Shield resist the wails and offered to teach the technique to Long Haochen.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen descended to the fissure’s bottom, found demon corpses and deathly white mist, and reached a cave where the wails originated.
• After recovering and equipping themselves, Yue Chen and Long Haochen entered the cave and found a vast chamber containing an enormous ancient tower.
• Long Haochen warned that the tower seemed too dangerous to approach, but an unexpected wave of wails interrupted their discussion.
• Several solid-bodied Wraiths attacked, and Yue Chen cast a Light Ripple shield to protect himself and Long Haochen as the creatures dived toward them.

Yue Chen, Long Haochen, Sol, and Haoyue faced increasingly dangerous wraiths in the Cave of Dreadful Wails while investigating the tower at its center. Sol identified the tower as something like equipment containing a powerful spiritual presence belonging to a human necromancer, leaving the group poised to learn more about it.

• Yue Chen used Sol’s dragon flame to destroy the first powerful wraiths, then defended against a stronger wave while Long Haochen urged him to retreat.
• Sol arrived through a portal, suppressing the cavern’s undead aura and revealing the seven-story tower.
• Haoyue appeared beside Long Haochen, and Yue Chen noticed that Haoyue and Sol had been arguing.
• Sol warned that they were safe only until the next wave of wails and said the tower resembled equipment containing a powerful human necromancer’s spiritual presence.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen reached the Eternal Tower, a necromancer’s legacy site, while Sol and Haoyue protected them from the wraiths. They opened the tower’s door, releasing a powerful current of death energy as the surrounding wraiths poured inside.

• Yue Chen and Long Haochen decided to enter the tower together, with Sol and Haoyue following them.
• Sol incinerated attacking wraiths with Dragon Flame, while Haoyue’s purple aura drove others away.
• Outside the cave, Cai'er persuaded the Demon Hunt Squads to stay put and trust Yue Chen and Long Haochen to return safely.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen reached the tower and read the words “Eternal Slumber” above its entrance.
• Haoyue opened the tower’s door with a gust of wind, releasing dense death energy and drawing the surrounding wraiths inside.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen entered Yilikes’s Eternal Tower and heard a recording announcing trials for his Necromancer legacy. Long Haochen was horrified by the tower’s history, while Yue Chen concealed what he knew; the chapter ended with Long Haochen asking Sol to teleport Yue Chen out.

• Sol told Yue Chen that they were no longer on the Holy Demon Continent, and Yue Chen noticed their entrance had vanished.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen explored the tower’s hall and found its abundant elemental energy helped restore spiritual power.
• Yilikes’s recording welcomed them to Eternal Slumber and explained that passing the tower’s trials would earn his legacy.
• Yue Chen reflected on how he had surpassed Long Haochen in potential, while Long Haochen recalled how Necromancers had once devastated the continent.
• Long Haochen urged Yue Chen to escape the tower, then asked Sol to teleport Yue Chen away using the Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace.

Yilikes manifested a mental projection in the Eternal Tower and accepted Yue Chen and Long Haochen as his disciples. He began dividing the tower’s only return token and preparing protective charms for them.

• Yilikes’s grayish-white light tested Yue Chen and Long Haochen, suppressing their powers before vanishing without harming them.
• Yilikes’s messages fell silent after detecting two Children of Light, leaving Yue Chen and Long Haochen waiting in the first-floor hall.
• Yilikes formed a mental projection and revealed that he was the Necromantic Saint Dharma God resting within the Tower.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen bowed and accepted Yilikes as their teacher, and he chose to take both as disciples.
• Yilikes produced the necklace that granted access to the Eternal Tower and began dividing it while promising protective charms.

Yilikes bound Yue Chen and Long Haochen to the Eternal Melody and set them against each other in a contest for his legacy, while secretly observing their reaction. After completing their fusion and discovering Yue Chen’s unusual spirit aperture and Sol’s starry sky element, Yue Chen asked whether Yilikes could help Sol grow.

• Yilikes offered Yue Chen and Long Haochen two Eternal Melody tokens made from the Glorious Church’s First Pope’s skull, and each transformed into a tattoo on its bearer’s right arm.
• Yilikes declared that the first disciple to reach the top of the Eternal Tower would inherit his legacy, while the other would lose his necromancy and become the winner’s slave; Yue Chen and Long Haochen pretended to distrust each other.
• Yilikes explained the Eternal Tower’s uses and completed the Eternal Melody’s fusion with both disciples, increasing Yue Chen’s spiritual power.
• Yilikes detected the mutations in Yue Chen’s spirit aperture and spirit furnace, then identified Sol as a young Dragon King from another plane with the starry sky element.
• Yue Chen admitted Sol had helped him absorb the spirit furnace and asked Yilikes how he could help Sol reach adulthood quickly.

Yilikes warned Yue Chen that the space and starry sky elements in his body would eventually cause fatal elementalization and urged him to turn to Necromancy. Yue Chen and Long Haochen left the Eternal Tower, while Sol privately wondered whether he could help; Yue Chen resolved to avoid using the dangerous powers and believed Yilikes's warning.

• Yilikes told Yue Chen that his growing store of space and starry sky elements would elementalize his body and kill him, then urged him and Long Haochen to pursue Necromancy.
• Yilikes vanished after opening the path back from the Eternal Tower, and Long Haochen prompted Yue Chen to leave.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen returned to the fissure as the Eternal Tower disappeared, while Sol and Haoyue discussed Yue Chen's condition; Sol promised to find a way to help him.
• Sol opened a portal to the World of the Dead and wondered whether Yue Chen would become an astral spirit after absorbing his power.
• Yue Chen told Long Haochen he would avoid using the dangerous elements, though he believed Yilikes's warning about his changing body.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen left the Cave of Dreadful Wails and reunited with their Demon Hunt Squad teammates, while Yue Chen resolved to consider Yilikes's necromancy as his Body Elementalization worsened. After evading demon cavalry and learning that the demons were summoning Moon Demon Clan members to Heart City, Yue Chen decided the group would hide and teach their new skill to both squads.

• Yue Chen admitted to Long Haochen that he might practice Yilikes's necromancy to preserve his abilities as his Body Elementalization progressed, and asked him to keep his condition secret.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen emerged from the cave and met their teammates, who had come to search for them; Gandalf warned that demon cavalry led by a seventh-tier Elite Demon Lord was approaching.
• Yue Chen's group declined to fight the cavalry, disguised themselves as members of the Moon Demon Clan, and left the area.
• In the World of the Dead, Sol used Dragon Breath to melt the damaged Holy Fire Blazing Sun and began preparing to forge a replacement sword for Yue Chen.
• After evading repeated demon inspections, Yue Chen learned that Moon Demon Clan members were being ordered to Heart City and decided the squads should hide nearby and learn the skill from the cave.

While hiding in demon territory, Yue Chen taught Light Ripple to the eligible members of both squads and planned a trip with Long Haochen to meet Yue Ye in Demon Capital Heart City. The chapter left the pair preparing to travel while the rest of the squads watched their exploration recording.

• Yue Chen demonstrated Light Ripple’s penetrating power and taught it to Shiqi and Jin Ruchuan, while Long Haochen mastered it and began teaching his teammates.
• Jin Ruchuan asked Yue Chen whether teaching him the Knight Temple’s Divine Guard Block was allowed, and Long Haochen overheard their conversation.
• Yue Chen told Long Haochen he planned to contact Yue Ye in Demon Capital Heart City and arrange for their group to return to the Temple Alliance with a caravan.
• Yue Chen invited Long Haochen to accompany him, and Chen Ying'er overheard their plan and agreed to keep the destination secret from the squads.
• Yue Chen activated the Scouting Gem so the remaining members of both squads could watch the recording of their exploration.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen prepared to leave the team to explore the Eternal Tower, while Yue Chen gave his teammates instructions and addressed their needs. The chapter ended with Jin Ruchuan asking Yue Chen about signing a Retainer Contract to improve his innate spiritual power.

• Yue Chen and Long Haochen returned after exploring the cave, but Yue Chen avoided explaining what had happened in the Eternal Tower and prepared to leave with Long Haochen again.
• Yue Chen left Sol with the teams, reassured them that he and Long Haochen would return if the demons found them, and brushed off questions about the markings on his forearm.
• Yue Chen urged Xue Meng to use her authority and judgment more firmly, then asked whether she was having trouble getting along with her teammates; she denied it anxiously.
• Yue Chen checked Lin Xin's pill supplies and encouraged him to focus more on cultivating spiritual power, and Lin Xin agreed.
• Jin Ruchuan told Yue Chen that Han Yu had described a Retainer Contract that could improve his innate spiritual power, and Yue Chen asked whether he wanted to sign one with him.

Yue Chen signed a Retainer Contract with Jin Ruchuan, raising Jin Ruchuan’s innate spiritual power and granting him a divine shelter constitution. Yue Chen and Long Haochen then infiltrated Demon Capital Heart City in Moon Demon disguises and reached the gates of the Moon Demon Palace to find Yue Ye.

• Yue Chen activated a Retainer Contract with Jin Ruchuan, whose innate inner spiritual power value of sixty-eight rose to eighty-one and gained him a divine shelter constitution.
• Yue Chen told Jin Ruchuan to keep the improvement secret and assured him they would remain teammates rather than become master and servant.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen traveled to Demon Capital Heart City, whose dark aura suppressed their light-attributed spiritual power.
• The pair entered the eastern district disguised as Moon Demon nobles and surveyed the city’s powerful demons and human servants.
• Yue Chen used Yue Ye’s merchant company branch to secure a carriage, and he and Long Haochen reached the Moon Demon Palace and entered using his viscount token.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen infiltrated the Moon Demon Palace and visited Yue Ye to ask for help returning to the Alliance. Yue Ye offered to arrange a merchant caravan, but hinted that assembling it could take time as she tried to keep Yue Chen with her.

• Yue Chen and Long Haochen entered the Moon Demon Palace using Yue Chen's Moon Demon Viscount Token and reached the Inner Palace.
• Yue Chen introduced himself to Yue Ye as Lord Moon God, and she welcomed him warmly while Long Haochen looked on in surprise.
• Yue Chen asked Yue Ye why Demon checkpoints were disrupting travel, and she explained that the Demon God Emperor had ordered investigations and reforms after the incident in Narik Province.
• Yue Ye offered to send Yue Chen and his companions to the Alliance in a Yue Ye Merchant Association caravan, but said she could not leave the palace and had reached the sixth tier.
• When Yue Chen asked for the caravan's departure time and route, Yue Ye suggested that organizing it might take an uncertain amount of time and moved in front of him.

Yue Chen punished Yue Ye for her flirtation while Long Haochen waited outside, unaware of what was happening. Elsewhere, Sol sensed Yue Chen through their Equal Contract, and Long Haochen listened at the door.

• Yue Ye explained that her lost shipment had equipped a demon legion and admitted that its theft had triggered a purge in Narik Province.
• Yue Ye embraced Yue Chen and offered to do anything for him, prompting Long Haochen to attack her until Yue Chen blocked his strike and told him to leave.
• After Long Haochen left, Yue Chen used their Slave Contract to seal Yue Ye's spiritual power and ordered her to do five hundred squats as punishment.
• Yue Chen realized Yue Ye's physical stamina made the squats too easy and considered applying mental pressure through the Slave Contract.
• Sol sensed Yue Chen through their Equal Contract while Haoyue and the little human girl stayed nearby, and Long Haochen pressed his ear against the door to listen.

Yue Chen tried to leave Yue Ye’s residence with Long Haochen after learning the caravan’s route, but Long Haochen misunderstood their relationship after hearing Yue Ye’s exhausted complaints. Yue Chen proved he was sixteen, only for Sol to tell him they could no longer teleport.

• Long Haochen overheard Yue Ye panting while doing squats under Yue Chen’s mental pressure and decided Yue Chen needed a partner, considering Li Xin and then Wang Yuanyuan.
• Yue Chen found Long Haochen outside, said he had obtained the caravan’s departure time and route from Yue Ye, and prepared to leave with him.
• Yue Ye appeared sweaty and disheveled, reinforcing Long Haochen’s suspicion, then asked Yue Chen how old he was.
• Yue Chen said he was sixteen, and Yue Ye used a metal rod that confirmed his age, leaving her stunned.
• Yue Chen tried to leave with Long Haochen and contacted Sol to begin teleporting, but Sol told him they could no longer do so.

Yue Chen, Long Haochen, and Yue Ye were trapped in the Moon Demon Palace when the Demon God Emperor arrived, forcing them to disguise themselves as Yue Ye’s maids. As the palace gathered to welcome the emperor, Yue Chen and Long Haochen were still preparing for their disguise.

• Sol warned Yue Chen that teleporting could reveal their location to the approaching Demon God Emperor, and a maid announced that everyone in the Inner Palace had to come out and welcome him.
• Yue Ye explained that the Black Dragon Guards would scan the palace for human auras and that everyone would be confined together until the emperor left.
• Yue Ye proposed disguising Yue Chen and Long Haochen as her maids, and Yue Chen agreed despite Long Haochen’s objections.
• Yue Chen teased Yue Ye about her punishment and then pushed Long Haochen into a chair to dress him first, secretly holding a video-recording Scouting Gem.
• Moon Demon God Agares led the palace nobles to welcome the arriving guest as the Inner Palace residents gathered in the square, with Yue Ye and an unusually handsome half-demon near the front.

Yue Shen and Long Haochen disguised themselves as Moon Demon siblings to attend the Demon God Emperor’s arrival, but Feng Xiu recognized them and noticed Long Haochen’s dress and their clasped hands. After the gathering, they returned to Yue Ye’s bedchamber and prepared to leave for the Temple Alliance, while Yue Shen secretly kept a Scouting Gem.

• Yue Ye dressed Long Haochen as a Moon Demon girl named Moon Xi, while Yue Shen posed as his brother, Moon God.
• Yue Shen and Long Haochen joined the Moon Demon assembly and tried to avoid attracting attention as the Demon God Emperor arrived.
• Feng Xiu sensed Long Haochen and Yue Shen in the crowd, spotted their clasped hands, and chose not to expose them to Agares.
• After Feng Xiu left, Yue Shen hurried Long Haochen back to Yue Ye’s bedchamber, where Long Haochen removed his disguise and asked Yue Shen to keep it secret from Cai'er.
• Yue Ye arranged a caravan for their return to the Temple Alliance, and Yue Shen concealed a Scouting Gem he had obtained from her.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen returned their Demon Hunt Squads from demon territory to the Holy City, where the teams rested, shared their spoils, and discussed future cooperation. When Long Haochen asked why Yue Chen treated him so well, Yue Chen deflected the tense moment by teasing him about his disguise as Moon Xi.

• Yue Ye told Yue Chen and Long Haochen that her merchant caravan would depart for the Temple Alliance the day after tomorrow, and Yue Chen asked her to retrieve Long Haochen's discarded clothes and voice-changing necklace before teleporting away.
• Yue Chen returned to his teammates, and both squads joined the Yue Ye Merchant Company caravan to travel safely out of demon territory and into the Temple Alliance.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen led their squads to Starseek City, rested there for three days, then continued toward the Holy City by carriage while their members grew closer and practiced Light Ripple.
• Yue Chen divided the mission rewards between the squads, offered Long Haochen's team a discount on pills, and arranged for Gandalf to learn potion-making from Lin Xin.
• Long Haochen asked Yue Chen why he was so good to him, and Yue Chen joked about Long Haochen's Moon Xi disguise, making him blush and lunge at Yue Chen.

Yue Shen’s squads returned to the Holy City and discovered that the Mission Tower had canceled their Cave of Dreadful Wails exploration mission while raising its reward to 200,000 Merit Points. They refused the Tower’s 20,000-point compensation and went to seek justice, while Lin Xin prepared to appeal to his grandfather.

• Yue Shen tallied the squads’ earnings, and General Grade No. 21 brought its total to around 70,000 Merit Points after turning in missions.
• A Mission Tower staff member told Yue Shen and Long Haochen that the Cave of Dreadful Wails mission had been withdrawn and offered 20,000 Merit Points in compensation.
• Yue Shen learned that the mission’s reward had been raised to 200,000 Merit Points and said both squads had completed it, rejecting the Tower’s compensation offer.
• Yue Shen, Long Haochen, Cai'er, Lin Xin, and Chen Ying'er headed to the Temple Alliance Government Office to appeal, while Cai'er revealed she was the Assassin Temple’s Reincarnation Saintess and Long Haochen revealed Yue Shen’s Child of Light constitution.
• Lin Xin worked himself into tears and entered his grandfather Lin Chen’s office to ask for help.